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Ranga RaoR.K. Narayan: The Novelist and His ArtOxford University Press; New Delhi, India; 0199470758 / 9780199470754; Hardcover; New; New; R.K. Narayan’s immense literary oeuvre comprises novels, novellas, short stories, travelogues, and film scripts. In a career spanning over six decades, the creator of Malgudi received, notably, the Sahitya Akademi Award, the Padma Bhushan, and the Padma Vibhushan. Drawing upon his five decades of sustained interest and research on Narayan, and his own experience as a writer, Ranga Rao offers in this volume detailed critical analyses of Narayan’s fifteen novels and novellas. Through the lens of the three gunas in Indian philosophy, Rao traces Narayan’s shift from sattvic comedies to rajasic and tamasic ones, thereby charting the growth of the author himself—from styling himself as a realistic fiction writer to carving for himself a niche in the field of literature. Rao embellishes his critique with rich annotations, offering numerous facts and filiations, drawn from critics as well as friends and relatives of Narayan. This volume stands out as a definitive study of one of the most prominent authors of early Indian literature in English. Printed Pages: 344. 111571

T. Ranga RaoThe Yanadis of Southern IndiaAsian Educational Services; New Delhi, India; 2004; 8120618769 / 9788120618763; Reprint; Hardcover; New; New; The Yanadis are a race of people who occupy the Telegu speaking areas of erst-while Madras Presidency. This thin volume of 25 pages describes their manners and customs, beliefs, and mode of living. In the authors words : “In this paper, an attempt is made to bring together, as the result of personal observation and experiment, all that can be said of the Yanadis as they are.” This book was first published in 1899.Printed Pages: 30. 102868